Faery Lore: Leprechauns

Faery Lore

Leprechauns

Happy-go-lucky leprechauns are solitary faeries who prefer to avoid contact with
mortals and fellow fey alike, suspecting plots to either steal their gold or embroil
them in some strenuous adventure or revelry.
Leprechauns, who stand from 6 to 1 tall, have red hair and ruddy expressions.
Male leprechauns typically wear full beards. Unlike other faeries, leprechauns dress
immaculately in finely tailored clothing, including shirts, jackets, breeches or skirts,

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stockings, buckled shoes, and bowler hats. Leprechauns favor clothing in shades
of green ranging from the white-green of the inside of an apple to the dark green
of pine needles. They often carry walking sticks, called shillelaghs, and speak with
Gaelic accents.
These faeries practice luck magic, allowing a leprechaun to grant luck to himself
or to others. Leprechauns also can conjure gold, either faery gold (which vanishes in
time) used to trick foolish mortals, or true gold, which the faery obsessively protects.
Leprechauns dwell in shallow caves or hollows under living trees, which these
comfort-loving faeries outfit with sturdy furniture, soft carpeting, and warm
fireplaces.
Leprechauns are generally sedate faeries, preferring to sit by the fire smoking long
pipes and sipping drinks than to dance or sport, except when it comes to their gold.
Leprechauns hide their precious pots of true gold somewhere near their homes.
The next rainbow, however, invariably reveals the location, causing the alarmed
leprechaun to spirit the gold away to a new place of concealment.
If a mortal manages to steal a leprechauns pot of gold, the despondent faery will
stop at nothing to get it back, including granting up to three boons to the mortal for
its return but only if hes first tried trickery, threats, and surreptitiously swapping
the stolen gold for faery gold.
Despite their love of their own gold, leprechauns are uninterested in other forms
of treasure, including cold gold -- gold thats been dug out of the ground or panned
out of a river, instead of being created cleanly by magic.
Leprechauns have long memories, and often can recognize even distant
descendants of long-dead friends or enemies, particularly when it comes to stolen
gold.
Far and away dwells a leprechaun king with the power to conjure a rainbow bridge
between realms. While allied to Queen Leanan, he tries to avoid entangling his
people in the affairs of the Faery Queen and Goblin King.
Fallen leprechauns are clurichauns, who prefer red clothing to green. Clurichauns
are greedy and surly, usually found drunk, and almost always willing to fight anyone
over imagined provocations. Some clurichauns settle into the cellars of dishonest
tavern-keepers or too-worldly priests and monks, stealing their beer or wine by
way of a magical straw that can penetrate bottles and casks without leaving a hole.
Drunken clurichauns have been known to take wild rides through the moonlight on
the backs of sheep or farmers dogs.
While both leprechauns and clurichauns are protective of true gold, clurichauns
are especially greedy, and can sometimes be fooled into jeopardizing their own
treasure in schemes to gain more gold.

Leprechauns have names that also are popular for mortals in Ireland, such as
Brendan, Connor, Donal, Fergus, Jamie, Patrick (Paddy), Liam, Sean, and Seamus
for boys, and Deirdre, Erin, Fiona, Kelly, Maeve, Moira, Roisin (Rose), Shannon,
Shauna, and Tara for girls. Some leprechauns take a last name, usually beginning
with O, more often indicating a friendship with a now long-dead mortal than a
connections to a family or clan with the same name.

One of the Fey

Creating Your Leprechaun

Leprechauns are a playable faery type, just like pixies, pookas, sprites, and brownies.
Customize your leprechaun by adding 3 points to her base Attribute scores (adding
no more than 2 points to any single Attribute), and spending 5 points on individual
Gifts from Faery s Tale.

Leprechaun
Leprechauns are solitary faeries who are almost universally cheerful, except when
unfairly deprived of their pots of gold.

Attributes
Body

Mind

Spirit

Innate Gifts: Luck Magic, Pot oGold

Faery Lore: Leprechauns

New Gifts

All leprechauns possess the Gifts of Luck Magic and Pot o Gold.

Luck Magic
Leprechauns can magically enhance their own luck, or pass good or bad luck on to
others.
Good luck allows you to roll a bonus die when your faery attempts a task. The
bonus die acts just like a normal die in Faery s Tale. A person cursed with bad luck
also rolls a bonus die, but subtracts a success on an odd result. As with normal dice, a
6 on a good luck die or a 1 on a bad luck die entitles you to roll another bonus die.
An effortless feat, such as granting someone good or bad luck for a single attempt,
costs your leprechaun no Essence. Demanding feats, such as granting someone good

or bad luck on a single task until the next sunrise, cost 1 mote of Essence. Difficult
feats, such as granting good or bad luck on all activities until the next sunrise, cost 2
Essence.

Pot o Gold
Leprechauns possess the power to conjure gold, both permanent true gold and shortlived faery gold, which they often use to mislead would-be thieves, teach greedy
mortals lessons, or play pranks on the foolish.
Effortless feats, such as creating a single gold coin that lasts until touched by the
light of a full moon (however long that may be) before turning into an oak leaf, or
a pot full of gold that lasts until the next sunrise, when it turns into a handful of
shamrocks, cost your leprechaun no Essence. Demanding feats, such as creating a
single gold coin that lasts indefinitely or a pot of gold that lasts until exposed to fullmoon light, cost 1 mote of Essence. Difficult feats, such as creating a pot of gold that
lasts forever or an endless stream of coins that each last until sunrise, cost 2 Essence.

Credits
Author: Spike Y Jones
Artist: Jennifer Meyer
Editor: Patrick Sweeney
Graphic Design & Layout: Dan Zillion
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